There is a huge demand for Design Sprints right now. A Design Sprint is usually priced between $5k and $35k and can be delivered by one facilitator. You?We can help. Learn online the skills and tools you need to plan, execute and sell Google Ventures' Design Sprints or MVS Service Design Sprints. Get certified and boost your career. ‍Check our SwitchUp reviews (5 stars).‍‍‍‍

Best Online Bootcamp 2019*

Go beyond Design Sprint facilitation. We specialize in helping you set up shop. You will acquire strong foundations in Design Thinking, Service Design and UX. We make sure you have the confidence to take the leap and run your first Design Sprint.* Awarded by SwitchUp at the 4th annual Best Bootcamp rankings.

Our graduates serve a wide range of industries and include leaders from highly innovative private, public and non-governmental organizations. -> Check here some of their stories. <-

Get a solid foundation

Everything you need to know about Design Thinking and Design Sprints in one place with no sales pitches. Solid foundations on user research, ideation, and prototyping in fast-paced low-budget projects. Get in shape to run your own Design Sprint.

Master Design Sprints

You'll learn two lean approaches to Design Sprint: Google Ventures (SPRINT) and The MVS, Minimum Valuable Service (THE SERVICE STARTUP). Master the agenda, methods, and resource management of both approaches, practice and gain full confidence to D.I.Y.

Get certified

Pass the exam and become part of our global community of Design Sprint Masters. Started in 2014, hundreds of Sprint Masters are already part of this community, making it the biggest and fastest growing community for Design Sprints. Exchange knowledge worldwide.

Beyond Design Sprint Facilitation:Acquired Skills, Tools & Knowledge.

We are a skill-building academy. We specialize in Design Thinking education and empowerment, with which our founders have over 20 years of experience, many books published and thousands of graduate students worldwide. This means we are not here to sell you on our practice or on how smart we are. We are here to guide and equip you so that you can build your own design practice.We pledge to educate Design Sprint Masters, and this means acquiring skills and knowledge that go beyond workshop facilitation. We will teach you robust UX Design, Design Thinking, and Service Design foundations and skills. On the practical side, you will feel like sprinting with a real client. We are based in Silicon Valley, our founders are continually mentoring and sprinting with cutting-edge startups. Our global community of graduate Sprint Masters is the most diverse group of Sprint Masters you will find. We are also a lean startup, not a consultancy firm. So you are learning from practitioners. We live what we preach. To the right, you can see the areas of knowledge we cover rated from 0% to 100%, where a full bar means we cover the most relevant topics related to that area.

Design Thinking: 100%

Service Design tools and concepts: 80%

User centered Research: 80%

Agile and Lean Startup concepts: 60%

Co-development with ideation and prototyping: 100%

How to plan and execute Design Sprints: 100%

Master the Design Sprint flow and agenda.

With the skills you will learn you will be able to modify and create new Design Sprint agendas and flows that fits your needs. Often Sprint Masters need to adapt according to their needs and resources. This means making changes in the original process flow depicted in the original books or ever-changing modifications of it like Design Sprint 2.0. These hard-coded Sprint agendas need constant adjustments to perform in specific scenarios and with specific resources. We teach a strong Design foundation which prevents Sprint Masters from getting stuck or having to conform to specific Design Sprint protocols. Sprint Masters should feel confident to adjust and modify the Design Sprint flow as needed.

What you will learn and practice at Design Sprint School.

During the four-week boot camp, we present a balance of theory and practice aimed to build up your confidence and set you up to run (and sell) your own Design Sprints. Get ready to deep dive in one of our rich scenarios and design solutions using our unique canvas-to-canvas approach. This approach was designed to make your experience learning about Design Sprint a smooth sailing one. You can take as much time as you want to go through the Boot camp, usually students complete the course in two months. That being said, it is possible to finish the core-program in just one month. Here is a suggested breakdown structure for that.

Time requirement: 8 hours.Learn how to frame the problem in a way to inspire the sprinting team to pursue it like a challenge. You will also learn how to interview users and profile them during this week.

Time requirement: 8 hoursLearn how to prototype your solutions using cheap and easy-to-change materials. Also, learn best-practices on how to manage, measure, and prioritize the results of a Design Sprint.

Our famous and carefully designed Sprint Master Toolkit has everything you need to run your own Design Sprints.

You will receive a Sprint Master toolkit containing all the canvases you need to run your own Design Sprints. The kit also includes two Sprint Master's guidebooks you will use to set up the perfect sprinting pace and never get lost when facilitating a Design Sprint. The Blue Book covers the GV model and The Black Book the MVS model. These hands-on manuals and canvases are a treasure you will only find in this program. They come full of tips and hacks giving you the confidence you need to run your own Design Sprints.

Pass the exam to update your badge from graduate to Certified Design Sprint Master, the industry gold-standard for Design Sprints.

Get into our referral network - Only for Certified Design Sprint Masters. With hundreds of certified Design Sprint Masters sprinting all over the world the demand is high. We are always referring new certified Sprint Masters to companies and senior Sprint Masters in need of some help.

Our community of certified Design Sprint Masters has collectively run over a thousand Design Sprints worldwide, and counting.

"What I valued the most was the rich discussions with the role group and the peer designing approach that gave a warmth to the program despite the distance, creating a proximity between me the peer and the mentor."

Servane Mouazan

"It was great to be able to interact, practice and connect with other like-minded entrepreneurs. The learnings and tools I've learned at the program will help me in my current project which is related to the participation of women in a refugees-can-code initiative."

Paoola Sefair

Executive & Entrepreneur / Women Empowerment Advocate / Change Maker

"I really enjoyed the program, the content and the ability to practice along the way with a peer and a strong support from the mentors made all the difference. "

Jenni Philippe

Customer experience designer at Telstra.

“Design Sprints proved to be a valuable tool for accelerating our early-stage, service-driven innovation initiatives. The Design Sprint School team and approach have been instrumental in helping us create the environment and the internal capacity to run our Service Design Sprints for internal Ventures and for running Co-innovation at our Cisco Innovation Centers around the world”

Oseas Ramirez

Innovation Manager @ CISCO

"I rediscovered the energy I felt years ago during Stanford's Ignite in the first design thinking training I did"

Ghislain Bourgin

Innovation Leader @ Fortune 500 Company (France)

"The Design Sprint helped us find an alternative business model and revenue stream and we ended up pivoting the business. Huge impact on our startup in such a short period of time. Business changing experience"

Nick Larson

Founder of a Silicon Valley based startup.

Our core team

Since we've pioneered Service Design Sprints in 2014we've been busy teaching both the MVS and the GV Design Sprint models to product developers around the globe. Our diverse community of alumni Design Sprint Masters includes startups in Silicon Valley, small businesses in Latin America, innovation powerhouses like Cisco in the USA, government agencies in Malaysia, tech giants in Japan, and the list goes on. The Design Sprint School is a direct result of these learning and teaching experiences collected during such complexity-rich and culturally diverse engagements.

Mentors

Assigned Mentor

Our mentors are seasoned Sprint Masters with vast experience in running Design Sprints all around the globe. They are thought leaders and professionals coming from different backgrounds. They carry the Sprint Master Certification and are also certified by institutions like the Nielsen Norman Group (NN/g) and other renown User Experience educational groups worldwide.

Student Experience

Student experience

Our Student Experience team is responsible for handling the on-boarding, on-going, and graduation experiences. They are here to guarantee all our students have the materials they need to succeed, as well as resolving any issues our students might have.

Tenny Pinheiro

Principal mentor

As the author for the program and lead mentor, Tenny is always present in the live edition to interact with students, challenge them, answer questions and coach the other mentors to make sure they do a great job in guiding our students through the Bootcamp experience. He is also in charge of the mentor reviewing process for the DIY program. Check his Bio below.

Designed and written by:

Tenny Pinheiro

Author, Designer, Developer & Serial Entrepreneur.

Tenny Pinheiro lives in Silicon Valley, CA. He pioneered Service Design Sprints by publishing in 2014 his book The Service Startup: Design Thinking gets Lean (2014 Elsevier/ Altabooks / Hayakawa). In the book, Tenny proposed the MVS model, a Service Design Sprint methodology based on the integration of Lean Startup and Service Design Thinking. The MVS was the first methodology to suggest an Agile Sprint approach to Design Thinking projects. The book was published two years before Google Ventures launched the book Sprint. Tenny has over a decade of experience with Design Thinking education, and has designed corporate accelerator programs for companies all around the world and in Silicon Valley. He ran, mentored, and directly influenced over a thousand Design Sprints worldwide. Before pioneering Service Design Sprints, he was the founder and the CEO for the Latin America studio of Livework. Livework is a prestigious British Service Design firm regarded as the pioneer agency that introduced Service Design to the world. Tenny authored six books on Design Thinking, Service Design and Design Sprints and is a permanent columnist at the influential online Design magazine Core77.